AC9LG2U04 Year 1 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 Languages provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

notice that people use language in ways that reflect cultural practices

Elaborations

• 1

  experiencing or simulating a cultural practice, a Karneval parade or a children’s birthday game such as Topfschlagen

• 2

  noticing similarities and differences in cultural practices and stating own reactions, for example, observing how a child beginning school is celebrated in a German-speaking country with a Schultüte or how a German speaker wishes others luck with Daumen drücken

• 3 comparing aspects of lifestyles in German-speaking communities and in Australia, for example, ways of playing games, buying or eating food, interacting with family members and participating in school life
• 4 exploring symbols and languages used by First Nations Australians and by German-speaking communities in a range of contexts, for example, identifying the colours of flags in German and discussing what the colours represent in English

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